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Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:17:46 +0100Feed CreatorenFrenys (c) 2017EntertainmentFailures are finger posts on the road to achievementhttp://frenys.com/post/10474489-failures-are-finger-posts-on-the-road-to-achievement/
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474489-failures-are-finger-posts-on-the-road-to-achievement/Adventures are never fun while you re having themhttp://frenys.com/post/10474475-adventures-are-never-fun-while-you-re-having-them/
“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474475-adventures-are-never-fun-while-you-re-having-them/My own eyes are not enough for mehttp://frenys.com/post/10474466-my-own-eyes-are-not-enough-for-me/
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474466-my-own-eyes-are-not-enough-for-me/[God] will not be used as a conveniencehttp://frenys.com/post/10474427-god-will-not-be-used-as-a-convenience/
“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474427-god-will-not-be-used-as-a-convenience/Don t use words too big for the subjecthttp://frenys.com/post/10474402-don-t-use-words-too-big-for-the-subject/
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474402-don-t-use-words-too-big-for-the-subject/A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation meanshttp://frenys.com/post/10474392-a-silly-idea-is-current-that-good-people-do-not-know-what-temptation-means/
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474392-a-silly-idea-is-current-that-good-people-do-not-know-what-temptation-means/It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in ushttp://frenys.com/post/10474382-it-is-when-we-notice-the-dirt-that-god-is-most-present-in-us/
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474382-it-is-when-we-notice-the-dirt-that-god-is-most-present-in-us/You can make anything by writinghttp://frenys.com/post/10474373-you-can-make-anything-by-writing/
“You can make anything by writing.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474373-you-can-make-anything-by-writing/If you look for truth you may find comfort in the endhttp://frenys.com/post/10474370-if-you-look-for-truth-you-may-find-comfort-in-the-end/
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474370-if-you-look-for-truth-you-may-find-comfort-in-the-end/There are far far better things ahead than any we leave behindhttp://frenys.com/post/10474366-there-are-far-far-better-things-ahead-than-any-we-leave-behind/
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474366-there-are-far-far-better-things-ahead-than-any-we-leave-behind/The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good but that ...http://frenys.com/post/10474341-the-christian-does-not-think-god-will-love-us-because-we-are-good-but-that/
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474341-the-christian-does-not-think-god-will-love-us-because-we-are-good-but-that/To love at all is to be vulnerablehttp://frenys.com/post/10474339-to-love-at-all-is-to-be-vulnerable/
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474339-to-love-at-all-is-to-be-vulnerable/Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to anotherhttp://frenys.com/post/10474335-friendship-is-born-at-that-moment-when-one-person-says-to-another/
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:42 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474335-friendship-is-born-at-that-moment-when-one-person-says-to-another/Knock and it shall be openedhttp://frenys.com/post/10474510-knock-and-it-shall-be-opened/
“Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474510-knock-and-it-shall-be-opened/Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Presenthttp://frenys.com/post/10474509-gratitude-looks-to-the-past-and-love-to-the-present/
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474509-gratitude-looks-to-the-past-and-love-to-the-present/Now we cannot discover our failure to keep God s law except by trying our ve...http://frenys.com/post/10474508-now-we-cannot-discover-our-failure-to-keep-god-s-law-except-by-trying-our/
“Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474508-now-we-cannot-discover-our-failure-to-keep-god-s-law-except-by-trying-our/I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom i...http://frenys.com/post/10474507-i-think-each-village-was-meant-to-feel-pity-for-its-own-sick-and-poor-whom/
“I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474507-i-think-each-village-was-meant-to-feel-pity-for-its-own-sick-and-poor-whom/The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to t...http://frenys.com/post/10474506-the-value-of-myth-is-that-it-takes-all-the-things-you-know-and-restores/
“The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474506-the-value-of-myth-is-that-it-takes-all-the-things-you-know-and-restores/Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory t...http://frenys.com/post/10474505-prostitutes-are-in-no-danger-of-finding-their-present-life-so-satisfactory/
“Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474505-prostitutes-are-in-no-danger-of-finding-their-present-life-so-satisfactory/Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighborhttp://frenys.com/post/10474504-do-not-waste-time-bothering-whether-you-love-your-neighbor/
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474504-do-not-waste-time-bothering-whether-you-love-your-neighbor/Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgi...http://frenys.com/post/10474503-everyone-thinks-forgiveness-is-a-lovely-idea-until-he-has-something-to/
“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474503-everyone-thinks-forgiveness-is-a-lovely-idea-until-he-has-something-to/Wouldn t it be dreadful if some day in our own world at home men start goi...http://frenys.com/post/10474502-wouldn-t-it-be-dreadful-if-some-day-in-our-own-world-at-home-men-start/
“Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474502-wouldn-t-it-be-dreadful-if-some-day-in-our-own-world-at-home-men-start/You are always dragging me down said I to my Bodyhttp://frenys.com/post/10474501-you-are-always-dragging-me-down-said-i-to-my-body/
“You are always dragging me down,' said I to my Body. 'Dragging _you_ down!' replied my Body. 'Well I like that! Who taught me to like tobacco and alcohol? You, of course, with your idiotic adolescent idea of being "grown up". My palate loathed both at first: but you would have your way. Who put an end to all those angry and revengeful thoughts last night? Me, of course, by insisting on going to sleep. Who does his best to keep you from talking too much and eating too much by giving you dry throats and headaches and indigestion? Eh?' 'And what about sex?' said I. 'Yes, what about it?' retorted the Body. 'If you and your wretched imagination would leave me alone I'd give you no trouble. That's Soul all over; you give me orders and then blame me for carrying them out.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474501-you-are-always-dragging-me-down-said-i-to-my-body/Need-love says of a woman I cannot live without herhttp://frenys.com/post/10474500-need-love-says-of-a-woman-i-cannot-live-without-her/
“Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474500-need-love-says-of-a-woman-i-cannot-live-without-her/A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beachhttp://frenys.com/post/10474499-a-dragon-has-just-flown-over-the-tree-tops-and-lighted-on-the-beach/
“A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire."
"With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep.
"No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474499-a-dragon-has-just-flown-over-the-tree-tops-and-lighted-on-the-beach/The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are prea...http://frenys.com/post/10474498-the-great-difficulty-is-to-get-modern-audiences-to-realize-that-you-are/
“The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity solely and simply because you happen to think it true; they always suppose you are preaching it because you like it or think it good for society or something of that sort. Now a clearly maintained distinction between what the Faith actually says and what you would like it to have said or what you understand or what you personally find helpful or think probable, forces your audience to realize that you are tied to your data just as the scientist is tied by the results of the experiments; that you are not just saying what you like. This immediately helps them realize that what is being discussed is a question about objective fact — not gas about ideals and points of view.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474498-the-great-difficulty-is-to-get-modern-audiences-to-realize-that-you-are/Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your hearthttp://frenys.com/post/10474497-spiteful-words-can-hurt-your-feelings-but-silence-breaks-your-heart/
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474497-spiteful-words-can-hurt-your-feelings-but-silence-breaks-your-heart/Pride gets no pleasure out of having something only out of having more of i...http://frenys.com/post/10474496-pride-gets-no-pleasure-out-of-having-something-only-out-of-having-more/
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474496-pride-gets-no-pleasure-out-of-having-something-only-out-of-having-more/If God foresaw our acts it would be very hard to understand how we could ...http://frenys.com/post/10474495-if-god-foresaw-our-acts-it-would-be-very-hard-to-understand-how-we-could/
“If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474495-if-god-foresaw-our-acts-it-would-be-very-hard-to-understand-how-we-could/For you will certainly carry out God s purpose however you act but it make...http://frenys.com/post/10474494-for-you-will-certainly-carry-out-god-s-purpose-however-you-act-but-it-make/
“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474494-for-you-will-certainly-carry-out-god-s-purpose-however-you-act-but-it-make/The great thing if one can is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things ...http://frenys.com/post/10474493-the-great-thing-if-one-can-is-to-stop-regarding-all-the-unpleasant-things/
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474493-the-great-thing-if-one-can-is-to-stop-regarding-all-the-unpleasant-things/[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we ha...http://frenys.com/post/10474492-repentance-means-unlearning-all-the-self-conceit-and-self--will-that-we/
“[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474492-repentance-means-unlearning-all-the-self-conceit-and-self--will-that-we/The more we let God take us over the more truly ourselves we become - becau...http://frenys.com/post/10474491-the-more-we-let-god-take-us-over-the-more-truly-ourselves-we-become---becau/
“The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474491-the-more-we-let-god-take-us-over-the-more-truly-ourselves-we-become---becau/When I was ten I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if ...http://frenys.com/post/10474490-when-i-was-ten-i-read-fairy-tales-in-secret-and-would-have-been-ashamed/
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474490-when-i-was-ten-i-read-fairy-tales-in-secret-and-would-have-been-ashamed/The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (...http://frenys.com/post/10474488-the-mark-of-friendship-is-not-that-help-will-be-given-when-the-pinch-comes/
“The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474488-the-mark-of-friendship-is-not-that-help-will-be-given-when-the-pinch-comes/Whatever you do He will make good of ithttp://frenys.com/post/10474487-whatever-you-do-he-will-make-good-of-it/
“Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474487-whatever-you-do-he-will-make-good-of-it/If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religio...http://frenys.com/post/10474486-if-you-are-a-christian-you-do-not-have-to-believe-that-all-the-other-religio/
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474486-if-you-are-a-christian-you-do-not-have-to-believe-that-all-the-other-religio/There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serioushttp://frenys.com/post/10474485-there-is-a-kind-of-happiness-and-wonder-that-makes-you-serious/
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474485-there-is-a-kind-of-happiness-and-wonder-that-makes-you-serious/When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes...http://frenys.com/post/10474484-when-you-argue-against-him-you-are-arguing-against-the-very-power-that/
“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474484-when-you-argue-against-him-you-are-arguing-against-the-very-power-that/To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronge...http://frenys.com/post/10474483-to-what-will-you-look-for-help-if-you-will-not-look-to-that-which-is-stronge/
“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?” By jameshosie12]]>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:30:41 +0100http://frenys.com/post/10474483-to-what-will-you-look-for-help-if-you-will-not-look-to-that-which-is-stronge/